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PyData London 2026

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5 – 7 June 2026

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St. Paul's, London EC4M 7DQ

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+ 19:00 + + Introduction + You are here + +
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Rapid deduplication and fuzzy matching of large datasets using Splink
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Small Model Inference Infrastructure: Lessons Beyond vLLM
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Build your own LLM, Live, with MicroGPT
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